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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · 9h

i re-wrote my query letter after heavy rejections, reconstructed my entire manuscript, and worked more on story development. any of my beautiful writer friends want to help critique my query letter? ♥️

#amquerying #writing #writer

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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · Aug 16

Letters were sprawled in heartache and poetry. DON'T FORGET ME follows the tortured poet, Lysandra Guerrera, and the rich boy with a dark past, Ezra Van Dorren.

#PosterPit #PosterPitQ #Q #R #NA

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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · Aug 16

i realized, yesterday, that my husband has no idea what my book is about. i started drafting in January-February. We’re in August, almost September, and this man has been cheering me on without even knowing what I’m writing. 🤣♥️

#WritingCommunity

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Jessie Mavery @jessiemavery.bsky.social · Aug 6

💖 Claire has lost her job, her relationship, and her confidence.
All she has left is her best friend, Nick.
When a long-suppressed crush turns into a no-strings summer fling in Cape Cod, Claire believes she has it all. But it’s only temporary.

#questpit #R #A #W (soon #Q) #AgentGuide

Collage with summer photos and tropes for romance book

Beige postcard with written pitch for romance book and comp titles.

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Christina Adrian @christiemadrian.bsky.social · Aug 16

When Gabby flees town after a scathing video goes viral, she hopes to rebuild her reputation & design business from afar. But after a dare leads her to mister wrong at the right time, she must decide if trashing her life's work is worth a 2nd chance at love. #PosterPit #A #R #RomCom #Q #PosterpitQ

A woman pursing her lips into a kiss, looking to her right while holding money. Words at the top: Rekindled friendship, he falls first, opposites attract, and second chance. In dark brown are the words: One viral video, zero dignity, an escape plan that wasn't supposed to include him. At the bottom: From viral disaster to happily ever after. Title in the middle: Without a Second Thought

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Sara Duran ✨is querying✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · Aug 16

THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, AND JOHN is now in query inboxes near you ✨

#PosterPit #YA #F #LGBT #Q #amquerying

A faux movie poster for The Pirate, the Princess, and John featuring a silhouetted ship sailing on a layered blue ocean toward a distant castle under a pale moon, with three character names at the top: “Amir (the pirate),” “Mira (the princess),” and “John (for now).”

Below the ship is the quote: “A ship in harbor is safe, but that isn’t what ships are built for.” The title appears in large white serif letters, and at the bottom is the tagline: “YA fantasy, 82k, multi-POV; anti-colonial, non-Western, political intrigue; besties to lovers, found family, platonic ‘touch her and die’; strong girls, big feelings, sharp prose; diverse, queer, magical.” The author’s X handle @SARADURANAUTHOR and Bluesky handle SARADURAN.BSKY.SOCIAL appear in the lower right corner.

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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · Aug 16

I LOOOOOVE THIS

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annelise is vague! @anneliserichardson.bsky.social · Aug 16

#PosterPit #Q #F

The Sabine Women, kidnapped by the Romans, have been mostly forgotten.
So has the woman who sparked Rome's foundation.
In "She-Wolf", both their stories are finally told.

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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · Aug 16

Her scars never faded and their love never ended. DON'T FORGET ME is a story filled with heartache, dark academia, and rainy love confessions.

#PosterPit #PosterPitQ #Q #R #NA

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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · Aug 16

hi nikki! thank you for your interest. i’d love to query you :)

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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · Aug 16

i will never get over that era

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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · Aug 16

A shadow that accompanies them in the form of a lost love. DON'T FORGET ME follows the unfinished love story between Lysandra and Ezra. 🖤📃☕
#PosterPit #PosterPitQ #Q #NA #R

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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · Aug 15

let’s swap!

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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · Aug 15

i can’t wait to see your pitches !

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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · Aug 15

A rainy love confession in the flickering streets of Edinburgh, Scotland.

#posterpit #q #writingcommunity

PosterPit @posterpitevent.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hello #PosterPit pitchers! It's time for the eighth question of our🍿10 Days Of Q&As🍿 event!

"What scene from your book would you be the most excited to see remade in real life?"

Pit Q8 A What scene from your book would you be most excited to see remade in real life?

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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · Aug 15

down to swap!

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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · Aug 15

wait… i’m intrigued 👀

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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · Aug 15

i’ll see you there !

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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · Aug 12

i’ll be participating in #posterpit this weekend! comment and like if you want to swap support :)

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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · Aug 11

Letters, stamps, typewriters, angry love confessions in the rain, flickering streetlights, and a boarding school that looks like a castle.

🖤☕️📜🖋️

PosterPit @posterpitevent.bsky.social · Aug 11

Hello #PosterPit pitchers! It's time for the fifth question of our🍿10 Days Of Q&As🍿 event!

"If you could direct a book trailer for your novel, what are some hyper-specific details you'd include?"

#writingcommunity 📚✍️💙

Poster Pit Q% A
If you could direct a book trailer for your novel, what are some hyper-specific details you'd include?

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sherlyn 🖤🖋️☕️📜 @sherlynsvault.bsky.social · Aug 6

The Notebook X 10 Things I Hate About You + Dark Academia = DON’T FORGET ME 📜🖤☕️

A story filled with betrayal, poetry, and rain-soaked confessions.

#Q #questpit #R #NA #amquerying

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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · Jun 30

I couldn’t help myself… started a new project while editing another one. Introducing the vibes of my sapphic vampire novel 🥰.

#writingcommunity #writers #lgbt

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Marina Lucas | Author @authormarinalucas.bsky.social · Aug 6

When the mayor’s perfect daughter Lacey Bennet must ally with societal outcast Danira Keres to save her dying brother—the heir to their plague-ravaged world’s brutal patriarchy—her journey becomes one of monsters, impossible love and a fight for the key to humanity’s salvation.

#questpit #Q #A

Faded dark blue background with the pitch for the Other Side of Eternity

Comps page with the same faded dark blue background, with pictures of the covers of Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir and Fable for The End of The World by Ava Reid

Faded dark blue background with drawings of an undead lady screaming and a skeletal monster crouching, with a list of tropes and themes in the center

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Kala is Querying @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · Aug 6

#agentguide to CARELESS WHISPERS my romantic suspense set in Greece.
It's du Maurier's REBECCA x Sky's RIVIERA x Netflix's THE PERFECT COUPLE

The woman knew secrets; now she's dead. Everyone has a motive...

💥Secrets
💥Loss
💥Slowburn ❤️‍🔥
💥Obsession
💥Unrequited💘
💥Betrayal
💥Murder
#Questpit #Q #A #R #MY

PAGE 1 is a blue background with a hand reaching out of water.
Words along the top say SOME SECRETS ARE JUST TOO DANGEROUS TO KNOW...
An Agent's Guide to Careless Whispers, Romantic Suspense, a 98k word romantic suspense.

PAGE 2 has a picture of a woman looking over her shoulder at the camera. On the other side says Pitch & Plot and has the following text:

With their multiple homes and a business portfolio of luxury hotels, the Constantines' lives might be a world away from 29-year-old Listy Powers’ but Troy and his sister Olympia are like family, an unlikely yet close bond forged years ago at university. So when she learns Olympia, badly injured in a car accident, is back home on the Greek island of Paxos, Listy sets off immediately to see her.

Being at their villa, however, means unavoidable proximity with Olympia's very disapproving eldest brother whom Listy has always loved. When they first met 8 years ago, Kris was a married man with a pregnant wife; now he's a widower. But as the attraction they'd fought back then re-kindles, suspicions resurface about Kris' wife's death. Beautiful, manipulative Rianna had not been well-liked. Her speciality was ferreting out people's secrets. And everyone, Listy discovers, has something to hide.

As she unravels what happened to Rianna, the truth threatens Listy’s future happiness and the lives of those dear to her, and she must decide if crossing that line to protect someone she loves is a price she's willing to pay.

PAGE 3 has a photo on one side of a villa at night. On the other side it says Opening Lines and has the following text:
As the song fades, she hears the footsteps behind her. She doesn't rise from the lounger or turn her head. Just rolls her eyes and takes another gulp of wine, fixing her gaze ahead. Beyond the villa's perimeter wall where the wooded slopes fall away, the sea glimmers under the silver coin of a moon.
'I told you to leave,' she says, her voice slurred. 'It's over. There's nothing more to say.'
'I have plenty to say.'
Her head whips round then. She smiles, and the villa's floodlit swimming pool pulses as if it, too, is energised, its rippling glow tipping the brooding hedges with gold. She'd been wondering if one of them would turn up. She'd refused to go to the stupid party. They're all stuck-up and boring, and they hate her so she knows she won't be missed. But sitting here alone by the pool, drinking, waiting for her phone to ping a reply – any kind of response! – she'd grown bored and been thinking maybe she ought to go after all. Just to spoil their fun.

PAGE 4 has a collage of pictures and the title Tropes & Themes & The Vibes.
Tropes and Themes are: du Maurier's Rebecca vibes; Found family; Loss; Slow burn romance; Yearning; Obsession; Unrequited love; Secrets; Betrayal; Murder

Lower half of page has The Comps – Nanny Wanted by Lizzy Barber, End of Story by AJ Finn, The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and the Sky Atlantic series Riviera.

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Elise Betz #amquerying and seeking representation @elisebetz.bsky.social · Aug 6

#Questpit #Q #A #RF #AgentsGuide #amquerying
The Sun Diamond Princess & the Blind Assassin
👸 #BIPOC bi-racial princess
👨‍🦯#disability #blind romantic interest
🛌🛖 One bed at the shepherd's hut
💞Against the odds romance
🔺Relationship triangle between love and duty
🌲Pining
🔥Slow burn
🌶️Spice

Image split into four quarters of agent's guide. This panel features upper half body featuring Myra, a biracial tall woman with acne spots in a Turkish style jacket and pants. Arzhang is wearing only red dhoti pants, shirtless with well developed muscles and golden fringe across his eyes to indicate he is visually impaired. They are standing in a dark alley.

AGENT'S GUIDE
The Sun Diamond Princess
& the Blind Assassin
by Elise Betz

103K adult stand alone romantacy, light fantasy, dual POV, bi-racial princess, disabled blind romantic interest, plenty of pining, angst, sexual tension, and spice.

First sentence, first page: “If beauty was a currency for
women to procure a husband, Princess Myra was a pauper.”

A "sun diamond" (a roughly tumbled yellow crystal rock in a pendant faded in the background )- part of a panel with the upper half of the pendant.

The Pitch

Due to a mix-up at a brothel, a blind former assassin saves a facially scarred princess from an assassin sent by her mother, the queen regent. On the run together, the princess brokers peace with a warring country, offering herself up for marriage with hopes of returning home and deposing her tyrannical mother. The princess is torn between her love for her country and her love for the blind assassin.

Lower half of character bodies. Both wearing sandals.

Tropes & Comps

Relationship triangle between love & duty
Bachelor auction at a brothel
One bed at the shepherd’s hut
He falls first
Against the odds romance
On the run together
Slow burn, angst and pining

Zinna After Dark by Paul Lucas
The Ugly Princess by Henderson Smith
Facially scarred, “not pretty” FMC

Breinne of Tarth from Game of Thrones
Tall, strong, principled FMC

Daredevil: Blind romantic lead

Tristan & Isolde with HEA
Lovers kept apart due to political wedding engagement

Lower half of "sun diamond pendant" faded in background of quartering of image.

What if we have a princess that isn’t beautiful, short,
delicate, weak and helpless?

What if the princess saves the romantic lead from a life of prostitution?

What if we have a princess who is short tempered, can
kick ass and swears?

What if Tristan & Isolde had a happy ending instead?

What if we have a story that criticizes sexually repressive
patriarchal societies?

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